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#9945 How to create a new administrator with safe id

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Latest post by nicholas on Wednesday, 13 July 2011 01:37 CDT

Tuesday, 12 July 2011 20:48 CDT

user40634
Mandatory information about my setup:

Have I read the related troubleshooter articles above before posting (which pages?)? yes
Have I searched the forum before posting? yes
Have I read the documentation before posting (which pages?)? yes
Joomla! version: (1.6.4)
PHP version: (unknown)
MySQL version: (unknown)
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Admin Tools version: (latest)


Description of my issue:

Sorry, I have searched the forum, but cannot find out how to do this. How do I create a safe ID for a new admin user?

Wednesday, 13 July 2011 01:37 CDT

nicholas
As noted in the documentation of this feature, Admin Tools will only change the ID of the default Super Administrator user, the one with an ID of 42 (Joomla! 1.6+) or 62 (Joomla! 1.5).

The logic behind that Admin Tools feature is that most hacking scripts out there presume that your Super Administrator ID is 62/42 and your username is admin. Therefore, if you create a new Super Administrator, it suffices to not use a username of admin.

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

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